Did you just attempt a Goethe joke?

Back to the substance of your comment, the Taliban has no real sway in Pakistan. Every time radical Islam has been given a chance at the polls—in Pakistan but also in Turkey, and even Egypt—it loses. The FLN in Algeria in 1992 is the only example I know of where a radical Islamist party won an open election (HAMAS is another matter, as Fatah didn’t exactly allow real elections, and the West Bank is so unique it never really serves as a good case study).

Elsewhere, Pakistan has a good history of know what I mean?”>strongly rejecting Islamism when put to the vote. Musharraf’s claim of being anti-Islamist is a lie: he not only supports Islamists who wage guerilla campaigns in Kashmir (and, up until we threatened to bomb his Presidential palace after 9/11, Afghanistan as well), but some segments of his troops actively collude with Islamists to this day.

Pakistan’s democracy is sick, of that there’s no doubt. The people seem to have only three choices: Musharraf, the Bhutto clan, and the Sharif clan. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t still cycle between them. Musharraf has proven himself far more of a problem than a solution; whatever the result, even someone pathetic like Nawaz Sharif (or even some of the middlemen in the PPP) should be a preferred alternative.

Gateway Pundit’s methods amount to tracking crime committed only by blacks with the assumption that they’re more prone to violence and drug abuse than whites and asians. It is quite fundamentally racist.

Please Mr. Foust — Did the Devil make you change the letter “a” in your last name to “o”? — name an alternative to Musharraf that the US should support in Pakistan? Bhutto was going to be the gal, but she got taken out predictably, so name someone better right now at this moment. There is no one. Would you rather have Musharraf gone and the Taliban running the country? That worked out well in Afghanistan.

You know, I’d like to see all the dictator types throughout the planet removed, but in some cases, what would replace them, would be disastrous, as we see with a thousand Saddams on the rampage in Iraq and a Shia theocratic-sharia law government.

As far as the Gateway Pundit and Islam, it’s important to separate Muslims from Political Islam and Islamists, who are antithetical to our Western concept of Democracy,
or more accurately a Representational Republic style of government, where minority rights are protected and you have true freedom of the press (no true freedom of the press when you can’t blaspheme Mohammed or the Quran), and other rights of Civil Liberty guaranteed (the loss of which accompanies the implementation of Sharia law).

While I want to strangle the Gateway Pundit about Iraq where he’s a complete Farking idiot, I think as regards to Islamic issues, he’s berating the Islamists and Political Islam, which endanger us greatly in the West, rather than your glaring generalization of all Muslims as murderers.

And eeeek Kosovo now, which is likely to serve as a Grand Central Station for further terrorist infiltration in to the Balkans and mightily piss the Russians off, of whom I can’t see not retaliating against the US in some way.

George Bush is our First Islamist president, said to say.